The Impact of Slack on the Innovation of Material Firms

He Ping Zhong

doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.219-220.470

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The Impact of Slack on the Innovation of Material Firms

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Although organizational slack research posits various relationships between a firm’s slack resources and innovation, findings to date have been ambiguous. To provide insight into this relationship, this paper studies the impact of slack resources on the innovation performance of material firms by using empirical analysis based on the data get from 54 firms in Henan Province by questionnaire. The result shows that the relationship between slack resources and innovation in material firms is the inverted U-shaped. Overall, results highlight the importance of additional research into intervening factors impacting the slack–innovation relationship.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 219-220)

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470-473

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March 2011

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He Ping Zhong

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Chinese Firm, Innovation Performance, Material Firm, Material Firm Management, Material Industry, Organizational Slack, Slack Resource, Technological Innovation

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